At the Mixed Methods conference, we took the opportunity to interview some of our authors about their methods, and about what advice they might have for new researchers. The first of these is online now, and the rest will be put online over the next week. Watch the video here:
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Donna Mertens is one of the two new editors of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and her presentation on Friday afternoon was quite apart from the others I had attended in the sense it had a very direct and practical application as is suggested by the title of the session ‘Publishing in the Journal […]
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In the afternoon, I go to listen to Marie-Helene Pare on ‘ Convergence Strategies in Triangulation Design: A Review of Current Practices’. She talks about how triangulation is overrated and misused in MMR. People often cite and state that they are doing triangulation as a main rationale but actually they are doing a whole set […]
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Continue ReadingI am sitting in a second key note session with Professor Jennifer Mason, ‘Creative Tensions? Reflections on Mixed Methods in a Qualitatively-Driven Way’. I want to share a part of her speech here that made me think the most. In that part, she lists some reasons why she doesn’t feel comfortable with the concept of […]
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So, I thought that it’s probably about time that I write a little bit about what we are actually planning SRMO to be. Please send through your feedback to this concept – there are a couple more months until we really set it down in stone! We would really like to make SAGE Research Methods […]
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Continue ReadingWhen we first approached the development of this product there were a number of assumptions that we outlined to verify during our initial research phase. These included: – we assume there will be significant value in delivering our research methods book content online, in particular we have heard significant demand from both academics, students and […]
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Continue ReadingSAGE Research Methods Online: a project that has been in the pipeline here at SAGE for almost a year now. For the last few months we have been carrying out research to understand how best to deliver the vast numbers of books we have online, and today we are well on our way to launching […]
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We @ weknowmore.org wanted to share our research philosophy for inspiration. If you also endorse these principles and if you are interested, you are welcome to contact us for the possibilities to publish your work on our site. Honesty Strive for honesty in all scientific communications. Honestly report data, results, methods and procedures, and publication […]
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Hi everyone, I recently came accross this post and thought of publicising it in case anyone was interested… New cataloguing guidelines for community archives Reviewers needed! Can you help? The Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) is developing guidelines on cataloguing. The aim is to produce some simple and short guidelines which if followed – […]
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Social simulation is a new method for the social sciences that combines some of the advantages of statistics and qualitative research. The SIMIAN project has been funded over three years from September 2008 by the Economic and Social Research Council to develop expertise in simulation within UK social science. The idea of simulation is to […]
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